Is "tools for thought" a scientific field? A design discipline? A "scene" in the arts? A tradition of craft? Day to day—what should I do today?—I feel pulled wildly between these framings.
Newly unlocked "letter from the lab" on navigating this tension:
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I agree, it seems like craftmanship. But what a diverse and joyful mix of cognitive science, philosophy, psychological semantics, linguistics, computer science, neurosci and so forth. I especially enjoyed a recent book Supersizing the Mind by a philosophy professor Andy Clark
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